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David Kirby on HuffPo: Dr. Francis Collins of NIH Speaks Out

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...Meanwhile, Dr. Francis Collins, head of the NIH, has spoken out on the resignation of Dr. Landis from the IACC, in a video clip posted by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.

Dr. Collins called autism a "disease" (as opposed to a disorder) that "ravages" children, and conceded that parents have "understandably" been left frustrated and impatient. He also rightly stated that we need to "poke around in every possible way" and not assume that there is just "one path" to solving the riddle that is autism.

But, some parents also wonder, was the NIH Director admonishing them for making Dr. Landis feel it was "necessary" for her to resign from the IACC? Was Collins also demanding that parents "step back" from pressuring federal offcials to find the cause of their children's disease?

David Kirby is author of Evidence of Harm, a founding contributor to Huffington Post and a contributor to Age of Autism. His next book, Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment will be released within the year and is available now for pre-order at Amazon.

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And, as Dr Walsh has said, autism IS neurodegenerative. He has seen some autistics in their thirties who never got an antioxidant in their life, their brains are disturbingly in the death mode. I mean that with all sinceity, this process of autism is not constant. This is why the oxidative stress model of autism is so important, any neurologist would agree, that a constant flood of high ammonia, and false neurotransmitters, viral process, bacterial process, and immune process, constitutes a disease, sometimes in all body organs....???? Why do you think our kids die of heart attacks, seizures, strokes, and cancers?

Very interesting where they discuss protection from “harmful genomic consequences” of those retrovirus-induced de novo mutations through things like improved DNA methylation (mb12, DMG/TMG, SAMe anyone?).

Genetic mutations are not a life sentence.

In case you missed it, our knowledge on how and why genes mutate, and on how and why they are expressed/translated in actual proteins (a process highly influenced by environmental factors) – has come a long long way since Mendel poked about with his peas.